![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The "wave of suicides" following the novel was somewhat exaggerated, more recent studies indicate that there may only be about a dozen verifiable cases where the novel played a part. It was also one of the first to be blamed, not without cause, to have a negative effect on some of its readers psychologists therefore continue to debate about the "Werther effect", meaning a work of art encouraging consumers to commit suicide. The novel was one of the earliest works of literature to generate a recognizable fandom, creating a dress fashion. The Sorrows of Young Werther was an immediate best-seller and made Goethe famous virtually overnight. ![]() After Kestner's death Charlotte once visited Goethe in Weimar in 1816, an event that was freely adapted into the novel Lotte in Weimar (1939) by Thomas Mann. The novel was young Goethe's way of working out his feelings over his platonic relationship with Charlotte Buff (1753-1828), who went on to marry Johann Christian Kestner, who was on good terms with Goethe and served as the model for Albert in the novel. Werther gradually becomes more emotional and less mentally stable. The Sorrows of Young Werther ( Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is a 1774 novel (revised in 1787) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about an emotional young man named Werther who falls madly in love with an young woman named Lotte, who is engaged to someone else. William Makepeace Thackeray, Sorrows of Werther ![]()
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